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valleyman02 t1_j8eiv0r wrote

Lol I admit they're much more convenient. But they do stink.

How often have we walked into a bathroom with a urinal and there is puddles of pee on the floor because somebody's being malicious. You almost never see a puddle of pee in front of a toilet.

Tongue-in-cheekly I say urinals cause malicious behavior!

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megagem t1_j8eik9r wrote

Downtown Dover has an Amtrak station that's surrounded by ten acres of wasted space that would be much more valuable to redevelop into housing than this.

It's crazy how little development occurs in any of NH's walkable downtown areas. Old photos often make it look like they swapped the horses out for cars while leaving everything else the same.

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TheMobyDicks t1_j8ei398 wrote

The design is fantastic. I wish WMUR had put up a schematic. It very tastefully designed with the cottages on the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the parcel from the road. The rear (woods) was put into conservation and backs up to the Bellamy River. The owners have a massive list of wanna-be tenants with no way to accommodate them. The goal for the owners and for the state is to see more of these units built to combat our workforce crisis. The next step is to build affordable two and three bedroom units so families can utilize. The real issue is finding land in desirable and accommodating communities. Dover certainly is that; they embraced this project and seek to do more like it.

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optimistic8theist t1_j8e8lp2 wrote

I've been following this drama, and at risk of my sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this: A resident of Milford ran for the school board last year, and didn't get elected. Last fall, a parent complained of their cis child being bullied by a trans kid in the bathroom - and if I am reading that article correctly, it looks like it was the spouse of the dejected school board candidate who submitted the concern to board member Wheeler - who then initiated looking into changing the district's gender affirming approach to bathroom usage.

On the day of the walkout by Milford students who were protesting the covering up of urinals, I noticed that the same dejected school board candidate made a comment on facebook about how teachers at the K-1 elementary school ask kids to not tell their parents about conversations they've had together - which sparked another big round of unrest.

The middle school principal has resigned (I'm assuming he received an influx of emails about the urinals, some kind and some quite awful), and the K-1 principal sent out an email to all parents of currently enrolled students that he is seeking more information regarding the allegation by the former school board candidate. The town is all over the news - in a bad way - and we have everyone upset (at the board, at the administrations, and LGBTQIA people, at each other).

I can't help but wonder if this school board candidate, who wasn't elected, was trying to create chaos, from which he could perhaps have a more successful run at getting on the board on the next go; the two complaints that keep getting everyone riled up and reacting appear to have been from the same couple/parents.

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